ETF comparison
VB vs VUG
US Small Cap vs US Large Cap Growth.
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap ETF · Vanguard Morningstar Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
13 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VB and VUG would leave roughly 0.6% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
Expense ratios are effectively identical (0.030% vs 0.030%).
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with VB vs VUG.
Top shared holdings
13 shared in total| # | Holding | In VB | In VUG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Astera Labs Inc | 0.45% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 2 | Flex Ltd | 0.36% | 0.10% | 0.10% |
| 3 | Texas Pacific Land Corp | 0.16% | 0.06% | 0.06% |
| 4 | AST SpaceMobile Inc | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 5 | Insmed Inc | 0.14% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 6 | First Solar Inc | 0.15% | 0.05% | 0.05% |
| 7 | Burlington Stores Inc | 0.12% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 8 | EQT Corp | 0.20% | 0.04% | 0.04% |
| 9 | TKO Group Holdings Inc | 0.07% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 10 | CoStar Group Inc | 0.07% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 11 | Lululemon Athletica Inc | 0.07% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
| 12 | Symbotic Inc | 0.02% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
Only in VB
1,296 total- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd 0.55%
- Jabil Inc 0.49%
- REVOLUTION Medicines Inc 0.46%
- Natera Inc 0.45%
- EMCOR Group Inc 0.45%
- Twilio Inc 0.38%
- NRG Energy Inc 0.37%
- MKS Instruments Inc 0.37%
- Tapestry Inc 0.36%
- Casey's General Stores Inc 0.36%
Only in VUG
133 total- NVIDIA Corp 12.63%
- Apple Inc 11.67%
- Microsoft Corp 7.61%
- Alphabet Inc 5.76%
- Alphabet Inc 4.53%
- Amazon.com Inc 4.47%
- Broadcom Inc 4.28%
- Meta Platforms Inc 3.41%
- Tesla Inc 3.27%
- Eli Lilly & Co 2.81%
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- VUG vs BBMC · JPMorgan BetaBuilders U.S. Mid Cap Equity ETF 0.3%
- VUG vs VTWO · Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund ETF Shares 0.2%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
Comparing two funds doesn't endorse swapping one for the other. Tax-lot history, account type, and personal goals matter — PlainIndex publishes data and methodology, not investment advice.